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When it comes to Hollywood's ongoing nepotism babe debate, histrion Hopper Penn—the lad of Robin Wright and Sean Penn—doesn't springiness it overmuch thought.
As helium exclusively told E! News' Francesca Amiker portion chatting astir his caller movie Devil's Peak, successful which helium stars alongside his ma and Billy Bob Thornton. "Honestly it doesn't impact me."
"I'm like, 'If you similar it, cool. If you don't, great. And if you deliberation that there's nepotism going on, I truly don't attraction due to the fact that I'm gonna bash the enactment conscionable arsenic nonrecreational arsenic everybody else," the 29-year-old added, "'and I'm not gonna travel determination and bash it half-ass due to the fact that I'm moving with my dad, I'm moving with my mom.'"
That being said, Hopper admitted that helium didn't person to audition for his archetypal film, 2016's The Last Face, which was directed by his father, Sean. "That tin beryllium a signifier of it, but I wasn't treated immoderate differently," he explained, earlier joking that the Oscar victor was "the aforesaid nightmare to enactment with that everybody had to enactment with," albeit, "a large nightmare."
It wasn't until helium worked alongside Destry Allyn Spielberg and Owen King—whose dads are Steven Spielberg and Stephen King, respectively—making the 2022 abbreviated movie Let Me Go the Right Way that helium truly began to recognize the nepotism discussion. As helium told E! News, "The tag was conscionable similar a full movie of nepotism."
But the mode the prima sees it, "Nepotism is the incorrect connection for what this is."
So however precisely does Hopper presumption it? "This is conscionable a concern that, luckily, for me, and not similar a batch of actors, it was capable to benignant of conscionable autumn into my lap," helium noted. "I was fixed the accidental with astir nary preparation."
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He continued, "I'm precise fortunate to person that, but I don't deliberation it's nepotism. I mean, if I messed up connected the movie the archetypal day, I'd beryllium fired conscionable similar everyone else. Or, if I was terrible, I'll beryllium terrible. And I person been terrible."
As for his ma Robin's perspective? "It is the quality of the beast," the House of Cards alum—who besides shares girl Dylan Frances Penn with Sean—told E! News. "They get your gene. And erstwhile they get your cistron and it works, what's incorrect with that?"
At the extremity of the day, the astir important happening to Robin is however an histrion responds to the worldly they're given, careless of who their parents are.
"It is simply a business," she pointed out. "That ne'er changes. It's conscionable a antithetic affectional worth due to the fact that you cognize each different truthful well."
Devil's Peal premieres successful theaters Feb. 17 and connected request Feb. 24.
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